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Folklore-Related Events for the
2007 -
2008 Academic Year
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Upcoming Conferences
Prizes and
Other CFPs
Past Events, Conferences, and Other Deadlines
Ending Wednesday, April 23
Exhibit:
"Made With Devotion": The Don Yoder Collection of Religious Folk Art at
Cabrini College
Exhibition
Opening: Monday, February 23, 2008
Exhibition Closing: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Grace and Joseph Gorevin Fine Arts Gallery
2nd Floor, Holy Spirit Library
Cabrini College, Radnor, PA
Admission is free
Tuesday, April 15, 5 p.m.
Lecture by Dr.
Leela Prasad, Duke
University
"Ethical
Subjects: Time, Timing, and Tellability"
Co-sponsored by the Graudate
Program in Folklore & Folklife and the Department of South Asia Studies
Location: Cherpack Room, 5th Floor, Williams Hall
A reception will immediately follow the event
Wednesday, March 5
Collaborative
Forest Management Seminar, National
Park Service, Philadelphia
For more information on related research done by
the Center for Folklore and Ethnography in the New River Gorge National
River and the Gauley River National Recreation Area, see the
CFE's research
page and the Ethnographic
Overview and Assessment Final
Report.
Wednesday, March 5, 10-11:30
a.m.
Lecture by Dr.
David J. Hufford, Professor Emeritus, Penn State College of
Medicine; Adjunct Faculty, University of Pennsylvania
"Spiritual
Healing: Relating the Healing Traditions of Religion and Medicine"
Templeton
Research Lectureship Program on the Constructive Engagements Between
Science and Religion (2005-2008), in association with the HUP
Department of Pastoral Care's Spirituality, Religion, and Health
Interest Group
Location: Hirst Auditorium (Dulles 1), Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia
Pizza will be provided after the lecture
Registration is requested, but not required; call 215-614-0332 to
register
Monday, March 3, 5 p.m.
Lecture by Dr.
Deborah Kapchan, New York
University
"Performing
the Festive Sacred in Morocco: Sufi Tourism and the Promise of Sonic
Translation"
Co-sponsored by the Graudate
Program in Folklore & Folklife and the Department of Near Eastern
Languages & Civilizations
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
A reception will immediately follow the event
Monday, February 25, 5-8 p.m.
Exhibit: "Made With Devotion": The Don
Yoder College of Religious Folk Art at Cabrini College
Exhibition Opening Events
Celebratory lecture given by Dr. David J.
Hufford, Professor
Emeritus, Penn State University College of Medicine; Adjunct Faculty,
University of Pennsylvania
"Belief,
Emotions, and
the Meaning of Religious Folk Art"
Remarks by: Dr. Don
Yoder,
Professor Emeritus, Departments of Folklore & Folklife and
Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Leonard Norman
Primiano,
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Cabrini College
Co-sponsored with the Cabrini College Society For Religion and Science
Holy Spirit Library, Conference Room, 2nd Floor
Cabrini College, Radnor, PA
Admission is free
Monday, February 4, 5 p.m.
Lecture by Dr.
Esther Schely-Newman, Hewbrew University
"Hanukkah in
Valley Forge: A Jewish-American Folktale in Israel"
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
A reception will immediately follow the event
Monday, November 12, 5 p.m.
Lecture by Dr. Dina
Roginsky, University
of Toronto
"Authentic
Folklorism: Israeli Folk Dancing in Israel and in America"
Co-sponsored by Graudate
Program in Folklore & Folklife, the Jewish Studies Program, and
the Middle East Center
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
Recommended reading:
Roginsky, D. (2007). "Folklore, Folklorism
and SynchronizationL Preserved-Created Folklore in Israel." Journal of Folklore Research, 44
(1):41-66.
A reception will immediately follow the event
Monday, October 1, 5 p.m.
Lecture
by Dr.
Haya Bar-Itzhak, University
of Haifa, Fulbright Professor of Humanities at Penn State University,
Harrisburg
"In Quest of a
Narrative--An Ethnography in an Israeli Kibbutz"
Co-sponsored by Graudate
Program in Folklore & Folklife, the Jewish Studies Program, and
the Middle East Center
Location: Moose Room, 3619 Locust Walk (Fiji House)
A reception will immediately follow the event
Upcoming
Conferences
Sunday, June 21-Saturday, June 27, 2009
15th Congress
of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR),
"Narratives across Space and Time: Transmissions and Adaptations"
Hellenic
Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens
Athens, Greece
Deadline for registration: June 30,
2008
Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2008
For more information, visit the ISFNR
website.
Wednesday, October 22-Sunday,
October 26, 2008
American
Folklore Society 2008 Annual
Meeting, “The Commons and
the Commonwealth”
Hyatt Regency Hotel,
Louisville, Kentucky
Deadline for abstracts: March 31,
2008.
For more information, visit the AFS website.
Tuesday, July 15-Wednesday, July
23,
2008
16th
World Congress, the International Union of Anthropological and
Ethnological Sciences, "Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity"
Kunming, China
Registration deadline: June 15, 2008.
For more information, visit the conference
website or contact the preparatory committee at iuaes2008@hotmail.com.
Monday, July 7-Thursday, July 10,
2008
Perspectives on
Contemporary Legend, 26th International Conference of the International
Society for Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR)
Camden Court Hotel, Dublin, Ireland
Deadline for abstracts: February 1,
2008.
For more information, visit the ISCLR
website or contact Paul Smith at fpsmith@mun.ca.
Monday, June 16-Friday, June 10,
2008
9th SIEF
Congress, SIEF2008 "Transcending "European Heritages": Liberating the
Ethnological Imagination"
Société
Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF)
University of Ulster, Magee Campus, City of Derry, Northern Ireland
Local organizer: Academy of Irish
Cultural Heritages
Keynote speakers:
Gulnara Aitpaeva, Pertti Anttonen, Henry Glassie, Wolfgang Kaschuba,
Peter Jan Margry, Sharon Macdonald, Dorothy Noyes; Helena Wulff
For more information, visit the conference
website or contact Mrs. Sharon Harkin at sief2008@ulster.ac.uk.
Saturday, May 17-Sunday, May 18,
2008
Translation/Transformation
OSU/IU Folklore Grad Student Conference
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
A joint conference produced by The Ohio State University
Folklore Student Association and the Indiana Univeristy
Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Associations
Deadline for abstracts: February 19,
2008.
Keynote speaker: Dr.
Alan Govenar, a scholar, filmmaker, and playwright
For more information, visit the conference website at OSU or IU, or email
Sheila Bock at smbock99@yahoo.com
or folksa@indiana.edu.
Friday, May 2,
2008
5th Annual
Graduate Student Ethnography Conference
Stony Brook University-Manhattan Campus
Department of Sociology
Deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2008.
Keynote speaker: Dr.
Michael Burawoy (University of California,
Berkeley)
For more information, email Misty Curreli, Department of Sociology, at SBEthnographyConference2008@gmail.com.
Thursday, April 10-Saturday, April
12,
2008
2008 Western States Folklore Society
(WSFS) Annual Meeting
University of California, Davis
Deadline for abstracts: February 15,
2008.
Archer Taylor Lecture:
John McDowell (Indiana University)
For more information, visit the conference website or
email Dr. Jay Mechling at jemechling@ucdavis.edu.
Prizes and Other CFPs
Deadline: May 1, 2008
Dr. David
Buchan Student Essay Prize for Contemporary Legend Research
Awarded
by the International Society
for Contemporary Legend Research (ISCLR)
For more information about any of these prizes,
email Prof. Paul Smith
at fpsmith@mun.ca.
Deadline:
Saturday, March 15, 2008
MacEdward Leach Graduate Student Paper
Prize Competition
Don Yoder Undergraduate Paper Prize Competition
Kenneth S. Goldstein Award
Awarded
by the Graduate Program in Folklore & Folklfe
For more information about any of these prizes,
email Prof. Dan Ben-Amos
at dbamos@sas.upenn.edu.
Past
Events,
Conferences, and Other Deadlines
Friday, April 4-Saturday, April 5,
2008
American
Play: Sports, Games, Entertainment, and Fantasy in American Culture
Sponsored by the Middle
Atlantic American Studies Association and the Great Lakes American Studies
Associaion, in cooperation with the Strong National Museum of Play
Strong National Museum of Play/Hyatt Regency Rochester, Rochester, New
York
Deadline for abstracts: December 14,
2007.
For more information, visit the conference website
or
email Dr. Simon Bronner at sbronner@psu.edu.
Thursday, April 3-Friday, April 4,
2008
Hoosier
Folklore Conference, "Reconsiderations of Folk Literature"
Hulman Memorial Student Union, Dede III
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
Deadline for abstracts: November 15,
2007.
Honorary Schick lecturers
are Barre Toelken (Utah) and Trudier Harris
(UNC, Chapel Hill)
For more information, visit the conference website or
email Dr. Nan McEntire at nmcentire@indstate.edu.
Wednesday, April 2-Friday, April
4,
2008
1st
International Student Symposium on "Folklore and Ethnomusicoogy"
Istanbul Technical
University Musicology Club, Instanbul, Turkey
Deadline for abstracts (English or Turkish): February 25,
2008.
For more information, visit the conference website
or email muzikbilimisempozyum2008@gmail.com
or muzikbilimi@itu.edu.tr
with questions.
Wednesday, March 19-Saturday,
March 22, 2008
National
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual
Conference
San
Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, California
Deadline for abstracts: November 30,
2007. (deadline extended)
Calls for papers from some folklore-related areas include:
- Folklore
and Popular Culture area (deadline November
1, 2007)
- Fairy
Tales area (deadline November 9,
2007)
- Festivals
and Faires area (deadline November
9, 2007)
- Libraries,
Archives, and Museums area (deadline November 1, 2007)
- Mythology in
Contemporary Culture area (deadline November 9, 2007)
- Subcultural
Style and Identity area (deadline November
9, 2007)
- Vampire
in Literature, Culture, and Film area (deadline November 1, 2007)
For more information, visit the conference website, or
contact the appropriate subject
area chair.
PCA/ACA
participants from the Penn Folklore community
Thursday, February 21-Saturday,
February 23, 2008
7th
Annual Louisiana Conference on Lanuage and Literature, "On and Off the
Page: Mapping Place in Text and Culture"
Hilton
Garden Inn, Lafayette, Louisiana
Deadline for abstracts: October 31,
2007.
For more information, visit the conference website or
Matthew Hackler, Conference
Chair, at mbh1010@louisiana.edu.
Friday, February
15-Sunday,
February 17, 2008
MYTH: A
Graduate Conference in German & Scandinavian Studies
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Deadline for abstracts: November 10,
2007.
For more information, visit the conference website or
email Evan Torner at etorner@german.umass.edu.
Friday, November 16-Sunday,
November 18, 2007
Fantasy
Matters Conference
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Deadline for abstracts: June 15,
2007.
For more information, visit the conference website.
Sunday, November 11, 2007, 11:30
a.m.-2 p.m.
Painting By Memory, with Barbara
Kirschenblatt-Gimblett and Mayer Kirschenbatt
Part of the 2007 First Person Festival, Food, Literary, Visual Art
First Person Stage, 2111 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA
$20 (includes brunch)
For more information, visit the event website.
Wednesday, October
17-Sunday,
October 21, 2007
American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies
Association of Canada Joint Meeting
“The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage”
Hilton
Québec, Québec, Canada
Deadline for abstracts: March 31,
2007.
For more information, visit the AFS website.
Click here for a list of AFS
participants from the University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, September 20-Saturday,
September 22, 2007
ISFNR
Interim
Conference, "Folk Narrative and Society"
Santa
Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
Deadline for registration and abstracts: March 15,
2007.
For more information, visit the ISFNR
website.
Deadline: Saturday, September 15,
2007
Don
Yoder
Prize for Best Student Paper
Folk
Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society
For more information, download the prize
announcement as a Word doc.
Deadline:
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Elli
Kongas-Maranda Student Prize
Women's Section of the American Folklore Society
For more information, email Prof. Patricia Sawin
at sawin@unc.edu.
To submit a folklore-related event for inclusion on
this calendar, email Linda Lee at linda.lee@mindspring.com,
and please put "Folklore
Events Calendar" in the subject heading.
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